But how can you tell if your marriage is over? Let us explore this area a bit more in detail: •If you believe in the four pillars that make a marriage tick - namely, love, respect, trust and commitment, then weakening of any one of the pillars would weaken the rationale of staying together in a marriage.
There are specific signs which signify weakening or the absence of the pillars.
How can you tell if your marriage is over? When you see signs that show lack of love, respect, trust and commitment.
•If the four pillars are the basis on which a marriage stands then effective and meaningful communication adds stability to the marriage.
The first and perhaps the most visible sign of a failing marriage is a collapse in communication.
Even if there is, it is mostly cursory, polite and cryptic.
•The quality of time spent with each other is a very reliable yardstick to assess the health of a marriage.
When your spouse does not have any intention of spending quality time with you or seeks excuses to stay away from you as much as possible, you know that your marriage has gone bad.
•Keeping one's commitment in a marriage is yet another parameter by which you can judge the state of health of a marriage.
Commitment could be fulfilling the assigned responsibilities; concern over the safety and welfare of the home and its occupants and so on.
How can you tell if your marriage is over? When you find that your spouse is either intentionally skipping the commitments or is simply ignoring them.
•Marriage is more often than not, a sort of camaraderie between the husband and wife.
You are best friends first and then everything else.
But when the marriage turns sour, both of you start to live more as competitors than friends.
One or both of you would always be eager to prove a point and win an argument, not for anything else, but for undermining the partner.
•No marriage is complete without its fair share of arguments, misunderstandings and differences of opinions.
But usually these are resolved amicably no matter who makes what kind of compromise to arrive at the solution.
How can you tell if your marriage is over? When you no longer arrive at any mutually agreeable consensus any more.